200 | -  Batanical Items, &c. 
Botanical Items communicated by Dr. Torrey. 
49. Prof. Hooker, of Glasgow, has in the press a Flora 
Scotica, and Mr. Gray is printing a new Flora Brittanica in 
Natural orders. The first volume of the latter work is al- 
ready a and the second nearly ready for publication. 
50. R.A. Salisbury, Esq.-has finished his great en on 
Natural Orders and Genera, with quite new location 
51. W. Swainson, na of ' Liverpool, has finished the 
Sth No. of his Z Zoologica 
ie figures, and desdtignions of new and rare animals, partic- 
ularly in the departments of Conchology, Eutomonogy, 
and Ornithology. The drawings and engravings are exe- 
cuted by himself. 
52. The 1st volume of Prof. Agardh’s Species Algarum, 
has been received. It embraces the Order Tucoies, 
containing fourteen genera which were all included in the 
Genus Fucus - Linneus. 
spent a part of the last winter in Germany 
and France; st st went for the of examining 
collections of Alge for his work. The fh rs of the 
Royal Museum of Paris, and Baron Humboldt aon com- 
mitted to Prof. a all diet ~ or undescribed Alge aquo- 
se, for descri 
53. The sixth volume of the new Systema pap 
commenced by Roemer & Schultes, and continued by the 
latter since the Wloatte “of his colleague, has recently been 
published. It finishes the class Penranpria. The Um- 
BELLIFERAE are arranged by Sprengel, according to. his new 
54. Prof. Fries, of the University of Lund, in Sweden. 
has published the first volume of his Systema Mycouoct- 
cum, anges to a new natural method. 
In the press—A description ‘of the island of St. Mi- 
chael, ma an account of its geological structure, with 
rem the other Azores or Western Islands, with maps 
and ded ' “Orizinally age to the Linnean Soei- 
ety of New-England. By 3. W. Webster, M. D. 
